GLAM Booklet 2013/Editathon right
Editathon right
Based on Tipu's Tiger The Victoria and Albert Museum in London hosted and supplied reference material for a joint Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia India editathon re Tipu's Tiger a musical instrument at the V&A that is of great interest on the sub continent]].
The V&A's curators weren't able to come in on the Saturday involved, but they did supply us with reference material which enabled the writing and improvement of wikipedia content across several languages. the handouts they gave us were amongst the material that started the reference library at Wikimedia India.
The editathon on the day at the V&A also included a group of editors in India via an IRC chat channel. This was one of our first experiments in multi national multi location editathons.
The V&A is commendably open about photography of most of their permanent collection and in this case released a high quality image to Wikimedia Commons.
One result of this is that the Tipu's Tiger article has been acknowledged as a "Good Article" by the internal quality assessment procedures on the English language wikipedia, and now exists in 14 other languages including Tamil. The V&A was able to use this program to enable source country virtual access to part of their cultural heritage.